Laundry-blue distributer.



PATRICK DIAMOND, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

LAUNDRY-BLUE DISTRIBUTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 14, 1905.

Application filed August 26, 1904. Serial No. 222.354.

To all whom it nea/y con/067%:

Be it known that I, PATRICK DIAMOND, a citizen of the United States,residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certainImprovements in Laundry-Blue Distributers, of which the following is aspecification.

One object of my invention is to provide a device for receivinganddistributing laundryblue which for a given size over all shall have agreater surface for the reception of blue or other coloring material andwhich shall consequently have a greater superficial area exposed to theaction of the water or other liquid which it is desired to color withsaid material, one result of this construction being that a given volumeof water will be colored when my device is used for distributinglaundry-blue, for example, in a much less time than has hitherto beenpracticable.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of the generalcharacter noted which,while being convenient to use, shall be relativelylight in weight and at the same time inexpensive to manufacture. I alsodesire to provide a bluing-tube with a device by which it shall bepossible to prevent its coming in contact with a wall or other verticalsurface against which it is hung.

These objects I attain as hereinafter set forth, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view ofmy improved color-distributing device. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectionalelevation of the device shown in Fig. 1, illustrating in detail theconstruction of the same. Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation showing thedevice as suspended from a nail projecting from a vertical structure andillustrating its position when made according to my invention, and Fig.4. is a sectional elevation of a modification of my invention.

While in the following description I have described my invention asemployed for the reception and distribution of. bluing material, it willbe understood that it may be used with equal advantage for othersolidcoloring material soluble in liquids.

In the above drawings, A is the body of my improved blue stick ordistributing device, preferably made as a tube of paper, cardboard, orsimilar light and inexpensive material. Such tube is prepared for use byimmersing it for a portion of its length in a strong solution of bluingmaterial, so that it not only receives a heavy coating of the same uponits outer surface, as indicated at as, but

also has deposited on its inside surface a similar layer of blue, asshown'at a. At the upper end of the tube I form two holes 5 and b', andit will be noted that these are not directly opposite each other, butare so placed that one is nearer the end of the tube than is the other.Suchplacing of the holes is for the purpose of causing the tube to hangaway from a vertical surface against which or adjacent to`which it issuspended in order that it may dry after being originally dipped in theblue solution without coming into engagement with said surface.

It will be seen that even if the nail B from which the tube is hung beperpendicular to the surface of the wall C the holes I) and will causethe tube to hang away from said wall so that it cannot possibly touchthe same.

In coloring a body of water by the use of my improved blue-distributerit will be seen that, owing to the relatively extensive surface exposedto contact with the said water, this latter will be brought to theproper shade in a much less time than would be possible if, for example,the blue-holding device consisted of a solid stick.

The upper part of the tube, upon which there` is no blue, serves as ahandle and also as a surface upon which directions for use may beplaced, it being also noted that after use the two holes out of linewith each other serve to keep the stick away from the surface againstwhich it is hung in the same manner as when it was first coated with theblue solution, thereby avoiding the disfiguring of said surface with theblue.

When used for the reception of black material to be employed for makingink, the tube may have a notch a2, preferably of V shape, in its side',as shown in Fig. 4., so as to permit a circulation of liquid inside aswell as outside the tube, even though its lower end rest upon a flatsurface.

I claim as my invention 1. As a new article of manufacture, a tubehaving its inside and outside surfaces coated with a layer of coloringmaterial removable therefrom when subjected to the action of a liquid,substantially as described. l

2. An elongated distributer for coloring material, having a coating of amaterial removable therefrom when subjected to the action of a liquid,and being provided with an opening whose line is at an angle other thanninety degrees to the line of said distributer, substantially asdescribed.

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3. A tube having upon it a coating of coloI'-a one end of said tubehaving iecess in the I0' ing material and being provided with two sidethereo' substantially as described. holes adjacent to one of its ends,one of said In testimony WhereofIhave signed my name holes being nearersaid end than the other, to this specification in the presence of twosub- 5 substantially as described. l scribing Witnesses.

4. A tube having coatings of coloring ma- PATRICK DIAMOND. terial uponboth its inside and its outside sur- Witnesses:

faces, said material being removable from the tube When subjected to theaction of a liquid,

WILLIAM F. BEA'I'QN, WILLIAM E. BRADLEY.

